Orkas

Orkas gives you a team of AI agents that you direct from your desktop. It's designed for solo founders and small teams who need to produce complex work like market research, presentations, or videos without a large staff. You describe what you want in a chat, and a coordinator agent directs specialists to build the final files.

Its approach is different from a single AI assistant. A central "Commander" agent manages the project, assigning tasks to a team of other agents who specialize in writing, data analysis, or creating media. This allows it to handle projects with multiple steps and deliverables.

• Local-first privacy: Your files, chat history, and API keys are stored on your machine by default, not a third-party server.
• Real file outputs: Orkas produces usable documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and videos that you can edit or share immediately.
• Flexible model support: It comes with starter credits for managed models. You can also connect your own API keys for providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini.
• Open source: The application is open source under an MIT license, so you can inspect the code to see exactly how it works.

The main idea is to turn multi-step projects into repeatable workflows. Instead of just getting a text response, Orkas delivers a set of finished files. You can ask it to analyze data, write a report based on the findings, and then create a slide deck to present it.

It's free to download. You can use your own provider keys without paying Orkas, which makes it easy to try out for your next project.